Sunday, September 7, 2014

One of the concepts I was teaching about in my class the other day was what's in and what's out. A lot of comments were made about things that were popular in the world now that use to be big when I was younger. Roller skates, board games, and phones in homes were a few mentioned. Then the meeting took a turn asking, what is inside you that is holding you back? What needs to be put out? I was struggling with how to present this because I am pretty hard on holding a lot of stuff inside. I struggle with the "What Ifs'" that would have been if I had not become addicted to pain Rx. Then onto the "What If's" that I put my family through with the many years they had of worry and care for me. I could go on and on and on. We all have "What If's." I decided I was going to listen to my friend and leader who I work with and go to her class to get some ideas. In that class was a young mother. She brings her three little children with her to class each week. (that in itself is pretty awesome to me.) She has lost a good amount of weight but her journey is still continuing. She expressed that she had gone home from the last week and visited with her husband. (Last week we talked about positive self talk.) She shared that she has felt like such an ugly person that she could not even give herself positive encouragement. She asked her husband to please help her. Each morning he sweetly told her how amazing she was and how special she was to him and her family. As she told us this we were all very touched. I think she will continue on with her journey and be able to improve her life. We all need that little extra encouragement at times. I am going to continue to give myself positive encouragement. I also want to encourage each of you reading my blog to spend some time with yourself. Find those awesome things that are uniquely you and write them down somewhere. Read them often. Before bed and in the morning. It might be hard but my hope is those words will help you to be able to start or continue on with YOUR healthy journey.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

You can order the September St. George Magazine by calling 435-674-6200 It costs $2.95 per copy and about $1.80 for shipping. They are sold out of the local stores and so at this time need to go into the Spectrum office at 275 East St. George Blvd or call and order it. Just in case you wanted one.

Many of you have seen the picture of me and my son Eric on the cover of the September St. George Magazine. I want to tell you a little bit about it. A reported called my son and began asking him a lot of questions about me and my health journey. Someone at the Newspaper had read my blog and felt like my story should be told. I was told at the time of the interview that the magazine would have a few articles about people who had changed their lives. I thought that would be okay. I want to help people get healthy any way I can. Then he decided that the interview should go in conjunction with a photo shoot? I wondered about that but they did need a photo to put with the article. Eric and I met at the Spectrum office and had an elaborate photo shoot. Both inside and outside shots. At the same time we met with the reporter and talked about our life changes. The reporter them came to my home to finish up his interview. I had no idea until I opened my newspaper and saw that magazine that we were going to be on the cover and the feature article. I have to say, I have been so amazed and humbled by the response to that article. I have been told many times that because of the article someone has decided to change their life. That they have realized that they need to try. I never dreamed 5 years ago that I would be helping others to make the choice to improve and better themselves. I want to thank you all for the words of encouragement, thanks, hope, and love that have been given to me.